An ephemeral short featuring commercial, industrial, and instructional footage selected from the Prelinger Archive. Contrasts traditional seafaring piracy with contemporary energy imperialism.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archive Mashups

Producer: Brian Comerford & Neoconjob
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: petroleum; pirates; pre-emptive warfare; imperialism; iraq; regime change; oil; u.s. military; noam chomsky
Contact Information: Brian Comerford <bcomerfo@du.edu>

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Ephemeral film footage selected & arranged by Brian Comerford

Vocal samples featuring: Noam Chomsky, Bob Guccione, Jr., Timothy Leary, Eugene McCarthy, David Niven, Genesis P-Orridge

Audio score by Neoconjob ("Petroleum Pirates" edit & remix taken from the original release, "The Truth Leaks Out", from the "Polyphonic Voices Of Digital Dissent" compilation available at CommTom, http://commtom.com)

Advertising, educational, and industrial stock footage made available through The Prelinger Archives, http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger

Hosted by Internet Archive, http://www.archive.org